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Sscond Class Poatage Paid at Evanaton. Illlnola-USPS No. OB7B50
VANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEWSETTE
Evanston. Illinois
PERIODICALS 0067-01
1703 Orrington av
60201
04k
cc
en
■The POSITIVE Voice of the Communities"
News Deadline: 12 NOON Saturdays Telephone: 475-5141
A Community Family News-letter From The CONCERNED CITIZENS COMMITMENT P.O. Box 955 - Evanston, IL 60204
VOL. 13, #31, Thursday, August 4, 1983 + $18 Year + Six Months $12 + Single Copy: 40(4
LOLA, MARIANNE, THEN LOLA THE WAC
RELIGHT THE LIGHTS OF FOSTER; RENEW THE LIFE OF CCC--BEST PROJECT TO WIPE OUT SO-CALLED "GANGS"
By CCC Publicitor Melvin S. Smith
These early dime store photos of teenagers Lola Mae
Young (left) and Marianne "Punky" Freeman show them
posing with unlit cigarettes, like they're smoking.
This they did in those years when, if they hed been
caught smoking, they would have psid e much higher
price, physically, than the monetary cost of 20tf a
peck.
Today, Merienne (Mrs. Odes) Geines is essistant
Food Service Manager at ETHS; mother, grandmother,
a Wild Bunch wife and one of its staunchest activist
booster of all Wild Bunch projects. It was she who
first alerted us to the club's activities before we
joined the organization.
And former United States Army Women's Army
Corps (WAC) member, is the happy housewife who,
in June provided the hospitality of her fabulous
Baltimore, Maryland home to host the Evanstonians-East annual picnic-reunion.
That nostalgic touch of personal history reflects how the lifestyles of yesteryear's black
teens differ from those of today's teens and pre-
teens. Earlier teens were under parental control, aided by church, school and community service units (such as the Emerson YMCA) supervision.
Never did young people in those days dare to
swear or smoke in the presence of their elders.
Today, with black liberation, women's liberation
and other freedoms of expressions, it is Mom and
Dad—if there is a dad—in the black community
who freely smoke, drink, cuss and gamble in the
presence of their children. What could one expect, then, from these "fine" examples of adult behavior?
Two decades ago, two-parent black families had
a tough time trying to guide their offspring from
childhood into adulthood, but they sacrificed and
struggled through those most difficult periods in
any family's history. Today's youth must endure
limited parental control, largely due to parents'
refusing to give up "the good life" of parties and
a social life they enjoyed before they took on the
family responsibilitiestOf married life.
Black husbands split the scene, leaving to the one
partner the tasks that were designed for the two.
Thus the standards that once governed lifestyles of
our black youth have been lowered drastically.
When parents, church, school and community abandoned too much of their usual role of disciplining,
instructing, guiding black youth, and providing a
favorable atmosphere in which they could develop, it
was natural that two forces stepped in to fill that
g»P.
What were those forces? One was the highly organi-
(SEE NEXT COLUMN)
se'd criminal element who find amon the black
yo;itii of our community a profitable market
in which to engage in the buying, selling and
using of dope.
It was the criminal element, then, that in
the 1960*s and 1970's, in full force moved
into the black community with a dope traffic
that dangled get-rich-quick promotions that
attracted our job-stsrved, poorly-trained
black male youth.
Warped of mind, unprepared for life, with
no financial base, these black youth with no
funds, wanted all the luxuries of life, as
advertised on television end other enticements. The dope-traffickers went whole hog,
encouraging our black youth to engage in the
world's oldest and most undefeatble profession, prostitution—in this case prostitu-
(SEE PAGE TWO) .
REGISTER NOW TO
VOTE!
IN 1983
OUR "CCC NEWSETTE NEWS DEADLINE IS
"712.N00H SATURDAYS. PLEASE DO NOT CALL
.'"'•MONDAYS AND ASK TO "SQUEEZE JJi" ITEMS

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Sscond Class Poatage Paid at Evanaton. Illlnola-USPS No. OB7B50
VANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEWSETTE
Evanston. Illinois
PERIODICALS 0067-01
1703 Orrington av
60201
04k
cc
en
■The POSITIVE Voice of the Communities"
News Deadline: 12 NOON Saturdays Telephone: 475-5141
A Community Family News-letter From The CONCERNED CITIZENS COMMITMENT P.O. Box 955 - Evanston, IL 60204
VOL. 13, #31, Thursday, August 4, 1983 + $18 Year + Six Months $12 + Single Copy: 40(4
LOLA, MARIANNE, THEN LOLA THE WAC
RELIGHT THE LIGHTS OF FOSTER; RENEW THE LIFE OF CCC--BEST PROJECT TO WIPE OUT SO-CALLED "GANGS"
By CCC Publicitor Melvin S. Smith
These early dime store photos of teenagers Lola Mae
Young (left) and Marianne "Punky" Freeman show them
posing with unlit cigarettes, like they're smoking.
This they did in those years when, if they hed been
caught smoking, they would have psid e much higher
price, physically, than the monetary cost of 20tf a
peck.
Today, Merienne (Mrs. Odes) Geines is essistant
Food Service Manager at ETHS; mother, grandmother,
a Wild Bunch wife and one of its staunchest activist
booster of all Wild Bunch projects. It was she who
first alerted us to the club's activities before we
joined the organization.
And former United States Army Women's Army
Corps (WAC) member, is the happy housewife who,
in June provided the hospitality of her fabulous
Baltimore, Maryland home to host the Evanstonians-East annual picnic-reunion.
That nostalgic touch of personal history reflects how the lifestyles of yesteryear's black
teens differ from those of today's teens and pre-
teens. Earlier teens were under parental control, aided by church, school and community service units (such as the Emerson YMCA) supervision.
Never did young people in those days dare to
swear or smoke in the presence of their elders.
Today, with black liberation, women's liberation
and other freedoms of expressions, it is Mom and
Dad—if there is a dad—in the black community
who freely smoke, drink, cuss and gamble in the
presence of their children. What could one expect, then, from these "fine" examples of adult behavior?
Two decades ago, two-parent black families had
a tough time trying to guide their offspring from
childhood into adulthood, but they sacrificed and
struggled through those most difficult periods in
any family's history. Today's youth must endure
limited parental control, largely due to parents'
refusing to give up "the good life" of parties and
a social life they enjoyed before they took on the
family responsibilitiestOf married life.
Black husbands split the scene, leaving to the one
partner the tasks that were designed for the two.
Thus the standards that once governed lifestyles of
our black youth have been lowered drastically.
When parents, church, school and community abandoned too much of their usual role of disciplining,
instructing, guiding black youth, and providing a
favorable atmosphere in which they could develop, it
was natural that two forces stepped in to fill that
g»P.
What were those forces? One was the highly organi-
(SEE NEXT COLUMN)
se'd criminal element who find amon the black
yo;itii of our community a profitable market
in which to engage in the buying, selling and
using of dope.
It was the criminal element, then, that in
the 1960*s and 1970's, in full force moved
into the black community with a dope traffic
that dangled get-rich-quick promotions that
attracted our job-stsrved, poorly-trained
black male youth.
Warped of mind, unprepared for life, with
no financial base, these black youth with no
funds, wanted all the luxuries of life, as
advertised on television end other enticements. The dope-traffickers went whole hog,
encouraging our black youth to engage in the
world's oldest and most undefeatble profession, prostitution—in this case prostitu-
(SEE PAGE TWO) .
REGISTER NOW TO
VOTE!
IN 1983
OUR "CCC NEWSETTE NEWS DEADLINE IS
"712.N00H SATURDAYS. PLEASE DO NOT CALL
.'"'•MONDAYS AND ASK TO "SQUEEZE JJi" ITEMS

CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.